A plant derivative which has not been approved by the National Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as an approved pharmaceutical. This means that the product(s) have not been s…cientifically studied enough to prove the benefits, dis-benefits, side effects, nor advantages per "pro vs. con" of the substance. However, some substances derived from these plants or other "Natural" derivatives have been proven to have advantageous benefits to the human health cycle when studied individually by scientists and chemists over the past millennium and go back as far as the ages of modern medicines. Some of these derivatives (nutraceuticals) are combined with approved (FDA) substances or food or other drugs to create the new drug, food supplement, or other substances termed "Nutraceutical" compounds. A nutraceutical (compound) is one that has no "un-proven" disadvantage to the human health cycles, nor does it have any "proven" advantage to the human health cycle when combined with the other compounds approved by the FDA. Nutraceutical meaning is: One that the FDA does not want to post proof, studies, nor information about and has deemed this term for viability of their own ignorance and public terms of creating a new meaning to ignore classification of the already known substances. The pharmaceutical companies are the definer's (they define these new terms) of these words like "Nutraceutical". This is the pharmaceutical company's definition of "We don't like the public to know the Truth" and "We want to create dollars instead of health products". (MORE)

+ useful for treating nutritional deficiencies + usually does not require prescriptions - often nutraceuticals lack clinical trials and evidence for their effectivity - side… effects might not be less common than from common pharmaceuticals. (MORE)

The regulation dates to January 2004 when nutraceuticals were recognised as natural health products (NHPs) through the Natural Health Products Directorate. The Directorate en…sures that all NHPs are safe and effective. (MORE)

Any food that is made with a health-giving additive is considered to be a nutraceutical. Nutraceutical can also mean a diet supplement or a drug. The U.S. law does not recogni…ze the term nutraceutical. (MORE)